splash! she was up to her chin in salt water. Her first idea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea, "and in that case I can go back by railway," she said to herself. (nimi had soon realized that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was 100 feet high. "I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said nimi to herself as she swam about, trying to find her way out. "I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That will be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer today"once nimi made it to shore rr if iiiii neveer foowled that rabbit tthis wouldnt have happend brr need clothes i do wish that dress didnt rip off she cried until suddnly she heard something it was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; and she heard it muttering to itself "The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where can I have dropped them, I wonder?" Aurora guessed in a moment that it was looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and she very good-naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were nowhere to be seen—everything seemed to have changed since her swim in the pool, and the great hall, with the glass table and the little door, had vanished completely Very soon the Rabbit noticed nimi as she went hunting about, and called out to her in an angry tone, "Why, Mary Ann, what are you doing out here? Run home this moment, and first cover that body a giant dress will be waiting for you at home then fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!" And nimi was so much frightened and a little mad, but she ran off at once in the direction it pointed to, without trying to explain the mistake it had made. that little cottontail took me for his housemaid," she said to herself shcked and mad as she ran. "How surprised he'll be when he finds out who I am! But I'd better take him his fan and gloves—that is, if I can find them." As she said this, she came upon a neat giant house, on the door of which was a bright brass plate with the name "W. RABBIT," engraved upon it. She went in without knocking, and hurried upstairs, in great fear lest thinking to herself i hope i wont meet the real Mary Ann, and then shell turn me out of the house before she had found the fan and gloves noticing a light blue dress with gold circle designs on the edges worn under a white colored pinafore, with several layers of white petticoats keeping the skirt fluffy And long blue and white socks and red clogs. dressing herself and walking upstairs "How queer it seems going ,mesages for a rabbit, "nimi said to herself. By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table in the window, and on it (as she had hoped) a fan and two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves: she took up the fan and a pair of the gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass. There was no label this time with the words "DRINK ME," but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips. "I know something interesting is sure to happen," she said to herself, "whenever I eat or drink anything; so I'll just see what this bottle does. I do hope it'll make me grow large again, for really I'm quite tired of being such a giant large thing!" It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected: before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against the ceiling, ow ow ouch nimi cried in pain. and had to stop to save her neck from being broken. She hastily put down the bottle, saying to herself "That's quite enough I hope I shan't grow any more As it is, I can't get out at the door I do wish I hadn't drunk quite so much! Alas! it was too late to wish that! She went on growing, and growing, and very soon had to kneel down on the floor: in another minute there was not even room for this, and she tried the effect of lying down with one elbow against the door, and the other arm curled round her head. Still she went on growing, and, as a last resource, she put one arm out of the window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to herself "Now I can do no more, whatever happens. What will become of me?"Luckily for nimi the little magic bottle had now had its full effect, and she grew no larger: still it was very uncomfortable, and, as there seemed to be no sort of chance of her ever getting out of the room again, no wonder she felt unhappy.